16.3.3 Preparations for Migrating an Existing Solaris 8 or 9 Environment to a Non-Global Zone

For migrating an existing Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 environment to the non-global zone, perform the following preparations.

There are the following two types of procedures to create the non-global zone:

Migrating an existing Solaris 8 environment to Containers
Migrating an existing Solaris 9 environment to Containers

Before migrating it, perform the following steps. For details, see "System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris 9 Containers" or "System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris 8 Containers."

16.3.3.1 Preparations for Necessary Packages

Perform the following in the global zone on each node.

Mount the DVD medium of PRIMECLUSTER and convert the format of packages.

<DVD_DIR> is a directory that the DVD is mounted and <PKG_DIR> is a given directory to store packages.

# pkgtrans <DVD_DIR>/Solaris10/products/CF_NGZ/sparc <PKG_DIR>/FSUNclnet.str FSUNclnet

16.3.3.2 Installing Solaris 8 Containers or Solaris 9 Containers

If migrating an existing Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 to Containers, Solaris 8 Containers or Solaris 9 Containers are used. With the following procedure, check that a run time environment of Solaris 8 Containers or Solaris 9 Containers has been installed to the global zone. After that install packages below (download them from Oracle download site).

For installing Solaris 8 Containers
Checking a run time environment for Solaris 8 Containers. Execute the following commands to check that the package information is displayed.
```
# pkginfo SUNWs8brandr
# pkginfo SUNWs8brandu
```
If the package information is not displayed, check that the operating system in the global zone has been installed correctly.
Install the SUNWs8brandk package for Solaris 8 Containers. <DIR> is used for placing the package.
```
# pkgadd -d <DIR> SUNWs8brandk
```

For installing Solaris 9 Containers
Checking a run time environment for Solaris 9 Containers. Execute the following commands to check that the package information is displayed.
```
# pkginfo SUNWs9brandr
# pkginfo SUNWs9brandu
```
If the package information is not displayed, check that the operating system in the global zone has been installed correctly.
Install the SUNWs9brandk package for Solaris 9 Containers. <DIR> is used for placing the package.
```
# pkgadd -d <DIR> SUNWs9brandk
```

16.3.3.3 Creating a Flash Archive from the Migration Source Node

Create a flash archive from the migration source's Solaris 8 environment or Solaris 9 environment. Execute the following commands in the migration source environment to create the flash archive.

# flarcreate -S -n zone-a-system /var/tmp/zone-a-system.flar
current filter settings
Creating the archive...
8303358 blocks
Archive creation complete.

Transfer the created flash archive (zone-a-system.flar) to the desired folder in the global zone.